Assists health and community groups to improve the health of individuals and the community by raising awareness of healthy lifestyles, disease and disability, and other health-related issues.

Skill Level

1

Alternative Titles

• Community Health Worker
• Health Educator

Specialisations

• Asthma Educator
• Childbirth Educator
• Diabetes Educator

Unless you are exempt in very limited circumstances, you are required to have a positive Skills Assessment to apply for the visas listed below.

Skills Assessment authority for Health Promotion Officer is Vocational Education and Training Assess (VETASSESS). To have a positive skills assessment, you must meet the following criteria:

• Qualification(s) assessed at Australian Bachelor degree or higher degree with a highly relevant field of study and at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years.

This unit group covers Health Diagnostic and Promotion Professionals not elsewhere classified.
It includes Health Promotion Officers and Orthotists or Prosthetists.

Skill Level

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification. In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

Registration or licensing may be required.

Occupations in this Group

• 251911 Health Promotion Officer
• 251912 Orthotist or Prosthetist
• 251999 Health Diagnostic and Promotion Professionals nec